The shipping news [sound recording] / by E. Annie Proulx.
Record details
- ISBN: 0788737082
- Physical Description: 11 sound discs (13 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p1995, c1994.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Compact disc. Unabridged. "Unabridged books on CD"--container. "Tracks every 3 min. for easy book marking"--Container. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated performance by Paul Hecht. |
Awards Note: | National Book Award Winner, Fiction, 1993. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Family > Newfoundland and Labrador > Fiction. Newfoundland and Labrador > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Easton Public Library | ACD PROULX, E. ANNIE (Text) | 37777002304699 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | BCD FIC PRO (Text) | 34055086572124 | Adult Fiction CD | Checked out | 04/12/2024 |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
The Shipping News
Edna Annie Proulx was born in Norwich, Connecticut on August 22, 1935. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1969 and earned an M. A. from Sir George Williams University in Montreal in 1973. She was a journalist, wrote nonfiction articles for numerous publications, and was the author of several "how-to" books before beginning to write fiction in her 50s. She became the first woman to win the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, for her debut novel Postcards. Her novel The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1994. Accordion Crimes, published in 1996, won the Dos Passos Prize for literature. She also won the O. Henry prize for the year's best short story twice; in 1998 for Brokeback Mountain and in 1999 for The Mud Below. She has written more than 50 articles and stories for periodicals and edited Best American Short Stories of 1997. (Bowker Author Biography)